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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Prefix
WIATII
Syllable Instruction
Criterion referenced tests
2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Synthetic Instruction
Prefix
Digraph
Samuel T. Orton
3. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Chall's Stage 2
Anna Gillingham
Anglo Saxon
The Norman Conquest
4. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
Standard Scores
Cedilla
Breve
5. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Accommodation
ALTA
Components of Reading Instruction
Rate
6. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Breve
Trigraph
Modern English
James Hinshelwood
7. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Diphthong
Funding
Syllable
Cognition
8. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Digraph
V-e
Accuracy
Matthew Effect
9. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Cognitive Assessment
Breve
Achievement test
Diphthong
10. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
WIATII
Diagnostic Teaching
Syllable
Fluency
11. Open syllable
V >
Mastery level
Battery
Direct Instruction
12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Derivative
Old English
Phonemic/ decodable words
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Tactile
Mastery level
Modern English
MSLE
14. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Grade equivalents
Towre
Samuel T. Orton
Reliability
15. Closed syllable
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Comprehension
VC
Vr
16. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Anna Gillingham
Grade equivalents
VV
CTOPP
17. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Middle English
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Towre
Norm-Referenced Test
18. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Phonemic Awareness
Cedilla
Six basic types of syllables
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
19. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
ADHD
Diphthong
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
20. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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21. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Derived Score
Letter naming Chart
22. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
IDEA
Vowel Digraph
WRAT
Greek layer of language
23. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Diagnostic tests
Letter naming Chart
Components of Reading Instruction
Auditory Learners
24. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Components of Reading Instruction
Orthography
Accuracy
Samuel T. Orton
25. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Percentile/ percentile rank
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
V-e
V >
26. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Accuracy
Impulsivity
Norm-Referenced Test
Derived Score
27. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Phoneme
Derivative
Kinesthetic
NICHD
28. Final stable syllable
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29. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
V-e
Base Word
Percentile
Dyslexia
30. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Phonics approach
Social language
Standard score
Sound Symbol Association
31. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Diagnostic Teaching
Profile
Texas Education Code 38.003
Curriculum referenced tests
32. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Pre-English
Chall's Stage 0
Anglo Saxon
CTOPP
33. Individual Educational Plan
WRAT
IEP
Phonemic Awareness
Latin layer of language
34. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Semantics
Norm-referenced tests
Curriculum referenced tests
Rate
35. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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36. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Percentile/ percentile rank
NICHD
Components of Reading Instruction
IDEA
37. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Syllable Instruction
Standard Scores
Curriculum referenced tests
Six basic types of syllables
38. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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39. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Reliability
Grapheme
Towre
[-'le
40. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Chall's Stage 2
Synthetic Instruction
Derived Score
Texas Education Code 28.06
41. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Macron
The Norman Conquest
Anglo Saxon
Rate
42. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Derivative
Latin layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
43. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Diagnostic tests
VAKT
Top-down Reading Approach
Base Word
44. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Chall's Stage 2
James Hinshelwood
Age equivalent
Anna Gillingham
45. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
WIATII
Tactile
Ability
Academic Achievement Tests
46. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Phoneme
NICHD
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
47. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Frank Smith
Three Layers of Language
Reliability
Adolf Kusmaul
48. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Expressive language
CTOPP
Quadrigraph
Battery
49. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
V >
Syllable Instruction
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 2
50. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
CTOPP
Rate
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Standard deviation